OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 12 shown for “Mud Brick Stamped with the Name of Meryptah” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:08 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Mud Brick Stamped with the Name of Meryptah

Mud Brick Stamped with the Name of Meryptah

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mud Brick Stamped with the Name and Titles of Senenmut

Mud Brick Stamped with the Name and Titles of Senenmut

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Brick stamped with the Names of Amenhotep III

Brick stamped with the Names of Amenhotep III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stamped Mud Brick with the Name Min

Stamped Mud Brick with the Name Min

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mud Brick Stamped with the Royal Names of Aakheperkare (Thutmose I) and Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Mud Brick Stamped with the Royal Names of Aakheperkare (Thutmose I) and Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mud Brick Stamped with the Throne Names Aakheperkare (Thutmose I) and Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Mud Brick Stamped with the Throne Names Aakheperkare (Thutmose I) and Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sealing from a Jar with the Name of a king Amenhotep

Sealing from a Jar with the Name of a king Amenhotep

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Brick Stamped with the Name and Titles of Min

Brick Stamped with the Name and Titles of Min

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stamped Brick the Goldsmith Amenhotep and His Wife Nofretiry

Stamped Brick the Goldsmith Amenhotep and His Wife Nofretiry

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary Impression of the Necropolis Seal from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Fragmentary Impression of the Necropolis Seal from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 52 matched · 24 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 05:08 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.